My random adventure with Inspector Rebus continues. This time I came upon the thirteenth book in the series. Rebus seems to have lost it and threw a mug of tea at his boss in the room full of his colleagues. This cannot go unpunished, so he's sent to Tulliallan, a police school, full of young …
Another one of my Cambridge haul down! I'm doing pretty well with it having so far read five out of seven books I bought then, the only ones left are: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and David Szalay's All That Man Is, so I actually do stand a chance of finishing all of the haul before end of year …
After failing to finish NW and happily re-reading On Beauty I discovered I have a copy of White Teeth on my shelf, it was probably lingering there for over a year, a result of one of my countless book hauls last year. A lovely coincidence indeed. I read the book in October, before we changed the time, when …
Last year I read and loved Remains of the Day, my first book by Ishiguro, so I knew at some point I'll reach for his other books. As he recently won Nobel prize in literature every bookshop has all of his books on display, I picked Never Let Me Go, probably because the title sounded …
It seems I am on a bit of John le Carré roll. I really loved Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, so when I was flying home and none of the books I had with seemed appealing, I went to WHSmith in the airport and there The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was waiting for me. Alec Leamas, …
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Almost exactly two years ago I read Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories and I liked it a lot. Then I saw a lot of positive reviews of My Name Is Lucy Barton and finally I bought it while in Cambridge few weeks ago. I really like the Penguin edition, the window in the cover is a nice …
This is one of the super-overpriced books I acquired in Livraria Lello during my vacation in Portugal. It was described as one of must-see things in Porto and granted there was a queue, but with it being a bookstore there's no queue long enough... I'm sure it would be a lovely experience to browse the …
I saw the movie when it was in the cinemas and I remember I liked it, despite thinking at the same time it was a bit boring. I remember it was extremely well acted and I liked the way it was shot a lot, a lot of the scenes stayed with me. Probably not long …
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Let me first translate the title, it is important (as it usually happens with titles) How I Stopped Loving Design, now let me also add that Wicha is a graphic designer. You get the picture now, or a beginning of one. In the first chapter Wicha describes how he struggled to find aesthetically acceptable urn …
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I saw the movie probably six years ago and it left me speechless. It does not happen very often, probably happened less than ten times in my entire life, but I was speechless, there was nothing more to say, nothing to add, it was shattering. No surprise then that I dreaded the book, it's been …
Continue reading We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
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